Tropical Dreams

Why does today feel like Thursday? Today, I kept referring to tomorrow as Friday – I’m pretty sure at least three people corrected me. I guess I’m just trying to hurry the week along, so I can spend some much needed time with family! Nick and I are traveling to my hometown this weekend. It’s called White Deer, and it’s in the Texas Panhandle, and I doubt you’ve heard of it. I think it’s pretty awesome though. [In small amounts of course.]

Also awesome…these cookies.

Sunday I made Lemon Ricotta Cookies to take as a dessert over to Nick’s parent’s house. I had a 15 oz. tub of ricotta in the fridge and planned to use only 1/4 cup in a weeknight dinner (the penne dish from last night). So, I decided to try ricotta in dessert-form, and I loved it!

A few recipes changes: Halved entire recipe Used low-fat ricotta instead of full Used an ice cream scooper to spoon the cookies on the baking sheet Added on an additional step: Taste-test cookies before passing out to family

This is definitely a keeper! The cookies are so light, airy and flavorful. The lemon pinches your mouth with a taste of summer. Will be adding to my recently created “Tried and True” Recipe Favorite Link folder.

I also got a new toy to test this recipe.

$15 hand-mixer with self-containing stand. What more do you need?

A pretty free-standing Kitchen Aid would be nice….

But, don’t have a pity party for me because Nick and I just booked a flight to Mexico along with an electricity-free (past 10 p.m.) cabana on the beach.

Back to the subject of food, Where do you keep all of your online recipes? I just recently came up with the bright idea (don’t know why it has taken me so long) to add them to a favorites page folder in Internet Explorer…I’m all about categorizing and color-coding, so I’ll probably go overboard with this project. Organizational tools (folders, labels, color-coding my emails) are my favorite pieces of office playground equipment. Runners-up are purple pens, promotional product samples and colored sticky-tabs.